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In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a
research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is
connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the
Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and
financial crisis in 2007-8. It intersects with the emergence of
Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jurgen
Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou. This
handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism,
setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop.
Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy,
economics, politics and history, an international range of expert
contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and
preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of
framing and illustrative essays, readers will explore these
traditions, starting from Marx and Engels themselves, through the
thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg,
Lenin and Trotsky, among others), the Tricontinental, and Subaltern
and Post-Colonial Studies, to more contemporary figures such as
Huey Newton, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein
and Samir Amin. The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism
will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy,
cultural studies and theory, sociology, political economics and
several areas of political science, including political theory,
Marxism, political ideologies and critical theory.
In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a
research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is
connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the
Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and
financial crisis in 2007-8. It intersects with the emergence of
Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jurgen
Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou. This
handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism,
setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop.
Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy,
economics, politics and history, an international range of expert
contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and
preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of
framing and illustrative essays, readers will explore these
traditions, starting from Marx and Engels themselves, through the
thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg,
Lenin and Trotsky, among others), the Tricontinental, and Subaltern
and Post-Colonial Studies, to more contemporary figures such as
Huey Newton, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, Immanuel Wallerstein
and Samir Amin. The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism
will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy,
cultural studies and theory, sociology, political economics and
several areas of political science, including political theory,
Marxism, political ideologies and critical theory.
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a
rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the
effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He
shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered
into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the
progressive currents of German society. On one side were those
socialists - such as Moses Hess and the young Friedrich Engels -
who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social relations.
On the other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx
developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture,
thereby redefining the very notion of politics itself. This new
edition of the book includes a long interview with Kouvelakis which
puts the work in context.
Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by
the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their
followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to
imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a "revolution
without revolution." Trapped in a politically ossified society,
German intellectuals were driven to brood over the nature of the
revolutionary experience.
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a
rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the
effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He
shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered
into crisis, generating two antagonistic perspectives within the
progressive currents of German society. On the one side were those
socialists--among them Moses Hess and the young Friedrich
Engels--who sought to discover a principle of harmony in social
relations, bypassing the question of revolutionary politics. On the
other side, the poet Heinrich Heine and the young Karl Marx
developed a new perspective, articulating revolutionary rupture,
proletarian hegemony and struggle for democracy, thereby redefining
the very notion of politics itself.
Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading
Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of
Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who
made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who extended it
beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. They
contend that a focus on Lenin is urgently needed now, when global
capitalism appears to be the only game in town, the
liberal-democratic system seems to have been settled on as the
optimal political organization of society, and it has become easier
to imagine the end of the world than a modest change in the mode of
production. Lenin retooled Marx's thought for specific historical
conditions in 1914, and Lenin Reloaded urges a reinvention of the
revolutionary project for the present. Such a project would be
Leninist in its commitment to action based on truth and its
acceptance of the consequences that follow from action.These
essays, some of which are appearing in English for the first time,
bring Lenin face-to-face with the problems of today, including war,
imperialism, the imperative to build an intelligentsia of wage
earners, the need to embrace the achievements of bourgeois society
and modernity, and the widespread failure of social democracy.
Lenin Reloaded demonstrates that truth and partisanship are not
mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite-in the
present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan
position. Contributors. Kevin B. Anderson, Alain Badiou, Etienne
Balibar, Daniel Bensaid, Sebastian Budgen, Alex Callinicos, Terry
Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Stathis Kouvelakis, Georges Labica,
Sylvain Lazarus, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lars T. Lih, Domenico
Losurdo, Savas Michael-Matsas, Antonio Negri, Alan Shandro, Slavoj
Zizek
First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the
world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle
is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The
hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe
are growing to realize that socialism for the wealthy means
punching a few new holes in their already-tightened belts. Building
on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money
and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas argues that European austerity
is counterproductive. Cutbacks in public spending will mean a
longer, deeper recession, worsen the burden of debt, further
imperil banks, and may soon spell the end of monetary union itself.
Crisis in the Eurozone charts a cautious path between political
economy and radical economics to envisage a restructuring reliant
on the forces of organized labour and civil society. The
clear-headed rationalism at the heart of this book conveys a
controversial message, unwelcome in many quarters but soon to be
echoed across the continent: impoverished states have to quit the
euro and cut their losses or worse hardship will ensue.
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